Hand-loom.



No. 679,132. Patented luly 23, |9DI.

- M. P. & D. TDDD.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,132, dated July 23, 1901..

Application iiled March Z5, 1901. Serial No. 52,726. (No model.)

To @Z whom t may concern:

Be it known that We, MARTHA P. TODD and DANA TODD, citizens of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand- Looms; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. y

Our invention has for its object to provide an improved hand-loom; and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims. p

In the present method of teaching children in primary grades, which consists largely in manual training, small hand-looms are employed to instruct the pupils in the elementary principles of Weaving. Hence in our public schools and kindergartens there is a large and increasing demand for a simple and efficient loom of this character, which must nevertheless be of small cost. The looms at present employed for this purpose are not capable of much variation either in the size or proportions of the work which is turned out, and, furthermore, they all have the common fault that the mat or rug will be drawn in and made narrower at its central portion than at its ends.

Our invention has for its objects to overcome the above-noted objections and, further, to provide a needle which is capable of use as a heddle to press together the woofthreads.

Theinvention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved loom with the warp-threads secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a lower end elevation of the said loom, and Fig. 4 is a plan View of the combined needle and heddle.

The body of the loom is in the form of a rectangular frame l. To the lower end of the frame 1 is rigidly secured a thread-supporting bar 2, provided in its upper edge With a plurality of notches 3, which are preferably very narrow'at their upper portions and expanded lower down or inward. To the upper end of the frame 1 is adjustably secured an angle-bar 4, which is very similar to the bar 2 and is likewise provided with notches 5.

To adjustably secure this bar 4 so that it may be located at different distances from the bar 2, it is provided near the ends of its base` flange with notches or pin seats 6, which closely lit the stem portions of headed studs or pins 7, secured on the upper faces of the side bars of the frame 1. The vertical flanges of the two bars 2 and 4 are provided with perforations' S, through which a pair of rods 9 are adapted to be passed parallel to each other and at a right angle to the said bars 2 and 4. The upper ends of these rods 9 are shown as bent to form heads 10.

The numeral 1l indicates a pair of pivoted supporting-legs, which are adapted to hold the frame l in an inclined position.

The numeral l2 indicates a long dat needle provided at one end with the several perforations 13 and 14, through which the woofthread is passed in the ordinary way. This needle 12 is of such length that it will extend through all of the warp-threads and project at its ends beyond the rods 9. I-Ience it is, as will presently appear, that the said needle may loe used as a heddle.

The character ,a indicates the warp-threads, which, in fact, is a single thread, that is eX- tended back and forth through the notches 3 and 5 of the bars 2 and 4, respectively, as shown in Fig. 1.

The Woof-thread or material is not shown; but the manner of passing the same between the warp-threads is well understood, and, furthermore, is indicated by the manner in which the needle is passed between the said threads in Fig. 1. With the needle extended, as shown in Fig. 1, the woef-thread will be drawn under the right-hand rod 9 and over the lefthand rod 9. On the return trip the needle will be passed under the left-hand rod 9 and over the right-hand rod 9, and in this manner the Woof at the sides of the mat or rug is turned over the said rods 9, and the work is thereby kept the same width throughout its entire length. It may be here noted that the perforations 8 lie directly under certain of the notches 3 5, so that the outer warp-threads ICO will be carried to the very edge of the mat or rug.

Each time the needle is passed between the warpthreads, as indicated in Fig. l, it Will be forced downward against the Woof-thread which was last passed between the Warp, and it thus serves, as has already been indicated, as a heddle to keep the Woof-threads pressed together. After the Work has been completed the rods 9 are drawn out and the Warp-threads are raised out of the notches 3 and 5. The work is then complete.

As is evident, by adjustments of the rods 9 into different perforations 8 the Width of the work maybe varied, While by adjustments of the notched bar 4 5 the length of the Work may be Varied.

The above device is thus very easily adjusted so as to vary the dimensions of the work within quite a large range. The rods 9 also serve another important function-to wt,they act as fulcrums over which the needle may be passed and pressed up and down, s0 that the point thereof will alternately pass over and under the successive Warp-threads.

The device is of course capable of considerable modilication within the scope of our invention.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

l. A loom-frame provided with means for holding and spacing the Warp-thread, and provided'with longitudinally-extended siderods, over which the Woof-thread may be passed, Which side rods may be removed endwise from the work, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a loom-frame, of notched end bars for holding and spacing the Warp-thread, one of which bars is adjustable With respect to the other to vary the length of the Work, and a pair of longitudinally-extended side rods passed through the said end bars and over Which the Woof-thread may be passed, at least one of which rods is adjustable with respect to the other to Vary the width of the Work, and both of Which rods are removable endwise from its supports and from the work, substantially as described.

3. The combination with the frame 1 having the headed stud 7, of the notched bar 2, 3, secured to said frame l, the notched bar4, 5, having the notches 6 engageable with any of said studs 7, and the rods 9 removable and adjustably mounted in perforations of said bars 2 and 4.', substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MARTHA P. TODD. DANA TODD. Witnesses:

M. M. McGRoRY, F. D. MERCHANT. 

